The Mausoleum of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi... - Secret World

Turkestan, Kazakistan

by Lara Kipling

The Mausoleum of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi is an unfinished mausoleum in the city of Turkestan.The structure was commissioned in 1389 by Timur, to replace a smaller 12th-century mausoleum of the famous Turkic poet and Sufi mystic,Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (1093–1166).